On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Sander Steffann wrote: > Well, you don't need addresses for clients, just for content... From > the architecture page at http://named-data.net/project/archoverview/: > > "Note that neither Interest nor Data packets carry any host or > interface addresses (such as IP addresses); Interest packets are > routed towards data producers based on the names carried in the > Interest packets, and Data packets are returned based on the state > information set up by the Interests at each router hop." > > So it's basically suggesting a NAT-like table in every single router. > And we all know how well NAT boxes scale... > the pending interest table is more similar to multicast routing table, which is maintained by end user subscriptions -- still challenging wrt to scalability.
Cheers matthias -- Matthias Waehlisch . Freie Universitaet Berlin, Inst. fuer Informatik, AG CST . Takustr. 9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany .. mailto:waehli...@ieee.org .. http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~waehl :. Also: http://inet.cpt.haw-hamburg.de .. http://www.link-lab.net
